Protesters stormed the mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Wednesday as unprecedented unrest over an energy price hike in the Central Asian nation spun out of control, police firing stun grenades and tear gas at a crowd of several thousand. Read more: http://u.afp.com/wcuk | AFP News Agency

Dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds injured during clashes in Kazakhstan, a police official from the largest city Almaty said, as troops from a Russian-led military alliance of post-Soviet states begin their operations in the Central Asian country to help quell the unrest. | CNN